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za.wowcity.com

South Africa ZA - WowCity.com: Connecting Shoppers & Local Businesses Online - Free Small Business Website Listings

Page Load Speed

43.9 sec in total

First Response

3.7 sec

Resources Loaded

23.9 sec

Page Rendered

16.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing ZA Wow City content for India. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about za.wowcity.com

WowCity South Africa is a city guide for shopping and travel in South Africa. Find South Africa businesses, shops, restaurants, hotels with coupons in the business directory and yellow pages.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Za.wowcity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.7 sec and then it took 40.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

za.wowcity.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

za.wowcity.com

3650 ms

style.css

200 ms

jquery.min.js

345 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

1037 ms

thickbox.css

1032 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Za.wowcity.com, 9% (7 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 9% (7 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 753.4 kB (53%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

681.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Za.wowcity.com main page is 1.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 49.4 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 10.9 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 38.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 177.8 kB
  • After minification 174.7 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. ZA Wow City images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 634.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 477.5 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 634.1 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 77.7 kB

  • Original 95.8 kB
  • After minification 94.3 kB
  • After compression 18.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Za.wowcity.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 77.7 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (58%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ZA Wow City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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za.wowcity.com

3650 ms

style.css

style.css

200 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

345 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

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1037 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

1032 ms

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main.css

1031 ms

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thickbox.js

2056 ms

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2022 ms

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1431 ms

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2037 ms

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2035 ms

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2022 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1987 ms

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js

2462 ms

combined_city_script.js

combined_city_script.js

2021 ms

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element.js

2431 ms

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jquery.tagdragon.js

1990 ms

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main.js

1990 ms

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816 ms

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icn-tours.jpg

icn-tours.jpg

925 ms

icn-carrental.jpg

icn-carrental.jpg

897 ms

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897 ms

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icn-cruises.jpg

icn-cruises.jpg

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896 ms

btn_gosearch.png

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840 ms

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841 ms

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897 ms

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897 ms

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897 ms

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897 ms

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681 ms

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683 ms

icn_wowcity.png

icn_wowcity.png

681 ms

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ca-pub-4975887223331095.js

885 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

4009 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

687 ms

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icn_globe.png

2249 ms

ads

ads

2839 ms

osd.js

osd.js

2023 ms

ads

ads

1534 ms

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abg.js

abg.js

1530 ms

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osd_listener.js

1700 ms

PL728x90.html

PL728x90.html

1655 ms

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ads

1370 ms

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PL728x90.gif

93 ms

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d5qAyLYU.js

1561 ms

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1538 ms

cookie_push.html

cookie_push.html

1901 ms

m_qs_click_protection.js

m_qs_click_protection.js

1593 ms

ads

ads

987 ms

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m

3395 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

283 ms

tab01_bg.jpg

tab01_bg.jpg

911 ms

tab01_grey_left.jpg

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1895 ms

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1895 ms

tab01_blue_right.jpg

tab01_blue_right.jpg

1943 ms

9im3l02I.html

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1480 ms

common.js

common.js

1320 ms

util.js

util.js

2079 ms

stats.js

stats.js

2078 ms

activeview

activeview

1831 ms

ads

ads

1377 ms

box_leftsearch_top.jpg

box_leftsearch_top.jpg

1106 ms

icon_user.png

icon_user.png

1106 ms

ads

ads

887 ms

pixel

pixel

466 ms

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465 ms

footer_bg.jpg

footer_bg.jpg

1384 ms

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

AuthenticationService.Authenticate

65 ms

translateelement.css

translateelement.css

679 ms

main.js

main.js

1249 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

1309 ms

loadingAnimation.gif

loadingAnimation.gif

1296 ms

SEO Factors

za.wowcity.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Za.wowcity.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Za.wowcity.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of ZA Wow City. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: